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UT Southwestern is a Medicare-approved transplant center for kidney transplantation.

Kidney Transplant: Treatment Options

Transplantation can be a beneficial option for many patients with kidney failure (also called renal failure). For those whose kidney failure is due to type 1 diabetes, a combined kidney transplant is often recommended.

Services available at UT Southwestern Medical Center include:

Kidney transplantation

Performed for patients with kidney failure who are either on dialysis or may require dialysis in the near future

Living-donor nephrectomy

Uses minimally invasive (laparoscopic) surgical techniques to retrieve a healthy kidney from a living donor and then transplant the organ into a recipient